Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business because they have no business of their own to mind any more than a smallpox virus has.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
I love those who can smile in trouble who can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct will pursue their principles unto death.
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends when they can go do what they really want to do.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Even when I was a kid I had a good thing with kids. To this day if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids I swear to you I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.
Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know we always honor her birthday.